The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-04
THE DECLINE OF KISSING.
Some of the Reasons Why 1t Has Fallen
Into Desuetude.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Kissing is out of style Nobody does it now
but sweethearts young children. and teachers.
The first blow was struck by the medical pro-
fession about the time of the decease of Princess
Alice. Ever since the practice has been de-
nounced, and in families where proper respect
is paid to hygiene, children are cautioned
against promiscuous kissing.
In society a woman is not Kissed Twice IN Il
season When an old friend is greeted and she
advances with her lips the victim turns her face
and the carers falls asltance. Possibly the very
woman who is opposed 10 the practice takes the
initiative. but her lips never meet lips. She may
kiss within fraction of your mouth-kiss your
chin, your cheek or your forehead; kiss your
"eyelid INTO repoSe, " or kiss your hair-but II she
has had any training socially, she will never kiss
your mouth. The repugnance to kissing is due
largely to the academic training. In nearly all
the famous colleges for women there is "A
special teacher, or doctress, in physiology; and
in the so-called oral recitations the pernicous
effects of OSCILLATION are considered at great
length By way of tolerating what seems to be
u necessary evil, various theories are advanced
and various provisions advocated. The girl
who comes from Smith College, Northampton,
kisses on the oblique line that falls from the
left corner of your mouth, but when kissed, is
so adroit in the way she jerks her head that the
point of salutation may be found on a radius
from the r,; mt of her demure little mouth. The
Vassar graduate kisses more than her Smith
College friend but the chin is her choice, as YOU
will observe in an attempt TO salute her. The
seniors from Wesley press their kisses high up
on the face, almost under the sweep of the eye
lash, and the Lake Forest and Harvard Annex
maidenS kiss at point equally distant from the
nose and ear.
Nothing is more dainty than the kiss of
well -bred chaperone, who, mindful of the time
and trouble spent over the powder box, gently
presses her lips on your hair just north of your
ear. The minister's wife is another sweet soul,
who knows where kiss will do the least harm,
and her favorite method is air kiss, with a
gentle pressure of her cheek 10 your cheek The
woman of fashion who patronizes you. aud lets
you visit her while she is at her sieSta, kisses
eye, ear. and hair line. she has learned long
ago about the incompatihility of haste and
grace, and as she advances you see her lips
turn in, and simultaneous with the kiss is
thick, vscous noise that sounds like the tearing
of a middle-aged marshmallow drop.
Married women are more addicted to kissing
than single ones, every lady knows who goes
calling, and they are the very kisses that
| young woman least enjoys for the reason their
| lips are always wet. Kissing the face of an ir
regularly powdered soapy smelling dame is
about as unSayory paStine as gathering bou
| quet of dandelions The West Side women
outkiss any other division of Chicago. The South
Siders kiss discreety and the bellies and ma
irons along the lake shore are too cosmopolitan
| TO waste their sweetness. Their greeting is the
| handshakinR prescribed by London and Endorsed
| by the patricanS of Newport and Murray Hill
| Meet Rush or Cass street lady and she frankly
| proffers her easily gloved band and shakes
| from the shoulder to q one-two count. Her
| pretty cousin on Bellevue avenue and lake shore
| drive is more artistic and her arm is rigid
| from the elbow up. Go still further north
| and the carefully schooled young wife and her
| queenly sister shake hands, but never an inch of
| the arm.